If there is one way for Jiwon Choi to overcome trauma and transcend our human shortcomings in these troubled times, it is through painting and encouraging empathy through what she chooses to depict and how. She aims to establish empathy through painting by focusing on materiality and exploring the sense of melancholia, a powerful emotion that often paradoxically inspires us with the courage to face reality as it is. (🖊: @min.mh.ha, @cenestpasvale 📷: @pur.pple) #JiwonChoi#PLUS#Issue5